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TasunkaWitko
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Posted: 20 October 2011 at 09:56 |
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From Time-Life's Foods of the World - American Cooking: The Northwest:
Time Life went on to say that Dorothy made her kep pickles by retrieving the kelp from the water:
The thick bulb is cut away and discarded:
And the tube of kelp is skinned of it's tough outer covering:
Then the kelp is sliced into rings:
At this point, the seaweed is ready to be pickled, but unfortunately, Dorothy didn't share her recipe. All that is mentioned is that the rings are steeped in a pickling liquid consisting of water, sugar and vinegar, with a melange of spices known only to Dorothy. "After steeping for several weeks, the rings will be as crisp and refreshing as a watermelon pickle, but with a subte marine flavour all their own."
After doing an internet search (during which I actually found a reference to Dorothy's kelp pickles in a 1972 printing of Florida's St. Petersburg Times - an article written by none other than James Beard, no less), I found this write-up and recipe for kelp pickles - I'm sure it's not exactly the same as Dorothy's but it does look good ~
From Langdon Cook's Fat of the Land Blog:
If anyone has access to kelp and tries this, I'd really like to know how it goes ~ it looks like an interesting one! |
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Now that is darned interesting! it's what this forum is all about.
I doubt that I can get that type of kelp out here on the east coast, but if I can I'll certainly give this a try!
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Go ahead...play with your food!
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hey, dave - if you're able to, let me know how it goes! i find this one pretty interesting, even though i will most likely never be able to try it!
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As a follow-up, I was doing a little reading on this, and it looks like pickled kelp is made on the east coast (Maine) as well, so it stands to reason that kelp in your area should work well for this, Dave.
If you give it a shot, let me know!
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Hi Ron . that looks Interesting . We got kelp here, but now the sea is rough and dangerous , so as it will Calm down i will go and collect some and pickle it . thanks for this great idea . |
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